ISRAEL VS. PALESTINE...AGAIN

[blueberryhill]

Hamas started the shit, the same as they always do. Bibi does what he has to do to keep his country and the people in it safe. Having balls seems to work for him and his country and Jordan seems to have some balls too. That's the only thing that works...unlike the pathetic POS we have pretending to take care of us. Actually, he's not even pretending to take care of this country anymore, in any way, shape or form.

I'm not a fan of Hamas and think that the tunnels and the bomb lobs deserved a retaliatory fuck you from Netanyahu. I also think that some of the global criticism regarding how that retaliation was facilitated was justified and Netanyahu's desire or ability to address it was for shit.

I think Bibi's view is increasingly one-dimensional and he expects unconditional support and huge amounts of money to defend his country without concern for working with those who are ponying up the support and footing the bill. In my opinion, it's not ballsy; his old-school vision and severe lack of diplomacy hurts his country in terms of global relations and long-term security.

I'd like to see US/Iran relations continue to improve. They've got a new leader with a more modern view who has reached out and we've got a mutual present-day enemy in the Islamic State group. Iran is helping Iraq fight IS -- very interesting to see those two countries cooperating (Iran gains a lot by helping to thwart IS, but it's still a change of tides to see Iran defending Iraq to achieve that gain).

The US should proceed, with realistic caution, in moving forward to rebuild the relationship with Iran under Rouhani's leadership -- a change which could help the real or perceived threat to Israel from Iran be diminished. But, Netanyahu, every chance he gets, continues to kick and scream on the public stage about the US's willingness to move forward from decades-old conventional wisdom and grudges as if he's been broken-up with or something, all the while taking a massive US hand-out every year and demanding more support.

I think that Netanyahu should have respected France's request not to go to Paris after the AQAP attacks. France had legitimate security concerns with the wave of anti-semitism in the country and didn't want the focus shifted. Having said that, I think it's worse that no top leader from the US participated in the Paris memorial and unity march. At first, I thought maybe we'd been asked not to attend in-person, so Obama and Biden respected France's security concerns. But that doesn't appear to be the case. Holder was already in Paris at security meetings and was a no-show at the march -- no excuse for that. France is fighting terrorists left and right and supporting US-led efforts; it's shameful that we weren't standing side-by-side with Hollande and the other world leaders in Paris, in my opinion. The White House has since expressed regret about the lack of US presence, but that doesn't mean much, to me.

I shouldn't have quoted all of this, just too lazy to delete, but I appreciate your comments which help educate me about current events. I am not really a news junkie, but do like to keep abreast of what is happening in our world. I don't understand the best buds forever philosophy of US/Israel, but old habits are hard to break....I was personally upset at all the bombings of schools, children killed, etc....I know innocents get killed in wars and it is always, well he started it, etc......but think they are just warmongers and these wars will continue until the end of time.